sorry to break up this american jingoistic jizzfest but if everyone takes a deep breath.....

the US wont (and doesnt have the capabilities) to mount a ground campaign in Iran. The US administration knows this, Iran knows this - all the bluster from both sides is empty rhetoric - kinda like when ur held apart from a fight by ur mates, and u struggle a bit - but not enough to actually break free.....

looking at things objectively you have to realise the huge resentment that the nuclear moralising provokes in just about every country in the middle east. We (the US, UK, USSR etc) sign a treaty limiting the membership of the nuclear club to an elite group - a treaty that was largely ratified throughout the world - on the proviso that we (the nuclear states) would disarm our nuclear arsenal and stop development of all new nuclear weapons. This has been laughably ignored and as such where is the moral highgound on which we in the west can stand with regards to the nuclear issue?
"You can't have nuclear weapons. You can't have nuclear power."
"Why not?"
"Because we signed a treaty 50 years ago...."
"Which you broke....."
"Doesnt matter - we don't trust you. We'll have to act strongly if you do devlop them..."
"like you did against India...?"
"Erm....they're too big....."
"Like you did against Pakistan....?"
"Er....they're too big too......"
"Israel...?"
"Erm....they're our allies...."
"North Korea?"
"well....they're more the size for a fight....but they got the bomb before we could..."
"so if we get the bomb then we'll be safe from aggression..."
"er....yes. So you better stop developing it!"

Besides which, any kind of take out strike on nuclear facilities in iran would be hugely counterproductive for the US.
It would cause massive resentment in the middle east and deepen anti-US sentiment, and it would actually strengthen the position of the hardline regime in Iran which is pretty unpopular at the moment (nothing like nationalism to get the country behind u eh?)
and what would it achieve? Iran's nuclear program would continue - and be forced undergound where it would be out of the reach of any weapons inspectors or international accountability....

it's a pretty scary era we're entering into - one in which nuclear proliferation will result in a widening of the elite nuclear club upon which 20th century diplomacy has been built (the permanent places of the UN security council all go to nuclear powers....) but as a result of the failures of the West (and the US in particular) in disarming and stopping development of nuclear weapons, there is no moral authority to prevent this happening.

quite simply, we're all fucked.....im off to build myself a bunker.....
andyandy Reviewed by andyandy on . Iraq...do they really want some? seriousley does iraq think that they can fuck with us were the most powerful nation in the world...we could shit on them if we wanted too but that would be sad, like a mean kid burning ants with magnfuying glass....they live in wetted down sand huts and they think they can do something. Rating: 5